Posted by NunYa Bidness on 01/04/86 11:31

On Tue, 08 Nov 2005 08:38:20 -0700, WinField <doghouse@operamail.com>
Gave us:

> [re: chromium-dioxide cassete
>tapes obsoleting 8-track format as the music medium of choice].

Bull.

8-track died because the mechanism itself sucked. Its audio
BW/quality was worse than standard cassettes already. Had it been a
viable mechanism, it could have easily adopted metal tape as well.
The other reason it puked is there weren't many recorders made. It
was meant to be a playback device as they already knew it had problems
with wow and flutter, as well as tape stretching and other seriously
detrimental problems.

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